Damian bent down as he couldn’t hear the elderly woman’s voice, “I’m sorry can you repeat that once again— ouch!” Damian recoiled his hand as he felt the woman’s fingernail carving deep on his wrist. As she frowned in pain, the woman continue to pull him nearer.Damian who was shocked at once swatted the elderly woman’s hand, and stood behind the door, “What are you doing?!”When Damian lifted his face for the second time, he found how the view in front of him empty. Spooked, Damian stepped out from the mansion. His face looked to his left and right, completely shocked and bewildered as the elderly woman had disappeared from his sight.He thought he had just experienced a fever dream but the wound on his wrist told him that what he experienced was indeed the reality. Finding the servant who was busy watering the trees, he quickly went to ask them, “Did you saw an elderly woman who passed by?”The servant looked confused, “I am certain no one passed by… what is wrong young master?”Da
Slightly startled, Belle straightened her back. Her blue eyes looked at him, confused, “Killed? Isn’t it a romance story?”“A tragic, romance story. I believe there are many like those in your land. Like the couple from different families who treated each other as nemesis, where in the end one killed itself.” Leon pointed out. “It’s similar but different for ours.”“Why did the witch killed the prince?” Belle questioned, feeling somewhere unsettled knowing that she was a witch and Leon a demon prince. Although she knew it was a story, it put her off ease.“The demon prince had unknowingly killed her parents,” Leon responded. “Their love story started like any others; where both creature meets each other for the first time, astonished by their differences and curiosity. They fell in love but witches and demons were enemies.”“So?” Belle whispered her questioned, feeling fearful of what she asked. “The prince’s brother told him to kill the witches who had been wrecking havoc in the hum
Belle flinched hearing her family name being spoken in her dream. As though she had been pricked by a cold silver needle, her eyes went wide as she tried to make out the face of the demon in front of her. Her anger was uncontrollable. The person inside her was filled with hatred, despair, and extreme sorrow where she could feel herself wanting to kill the demon in front of her. Yet from the softest part of her heart, she didn’t couldn’t bring herself to move her body or to hurt him.“My family might be unreasonable but I thought there should be a way for us to make them understanding each other,” she gasped for air as though she was stifled but soon Belle realized it was to stop the tears that ran across her cheeks. “I thought… I thought I’ve changed you. I’ve helped you. I’ve… I had…”“Unfortunately you could never change the heart of a demon,” said the man who suddenly reached out his hand to pull her wrist. “Didn’t you do the same to me? You think I’m heartless but what about you
Belle who was now alone pushed herself from the chair. She walked over to the balcony. After pulling aside the curtain and leaning her face forward, she found that the view in front of her was at night. Now that she thinks about it, she had never seen Hell at the morning. Or do they not have morning?Walking back to the room, she turned toward the door. Although she felt hesitant to travel around the home, she also wanted to look around Leon’s home, wondering how does every location appears as it was the home of the man she loves.Right as she stepped out of the door, she was startled by the figure who was covered in a black cape in front of her. The person looked at her, lifting their face that was covered by mask and immediately shrink back as though they were shocked. Belle didn’t expect there would be a servant other than Mephisto and a taller man.“Wait!” Belle stopped him before he managed to run. She looked at the masked man who appeared as though wanting to escape her but at t
Looking inside the room it was indeed snow that had turned the room icy and white. Belle reached out her hand as she was hesitant to step in. Feelings the snowdrops on her fingers which disappeared on her touch, she made certain that it was a real snow.“How could there be snow?” Belle whispered her question aloud, finding the masked man quickly pulling the glass quill and the pile of parchment. This time instead of talking he had drawn an easier figure of a book and a human. On the human’s hand was a magic wand.“Magic?” She questioned. “So… Leon could do things like these as well…”The masked man shook his head and wrote, “Not the lord, but a close friend of his.”Belle stepped into the room that was small in size, as though it was built simply to showcase the snowflakes that drops from the ceiling of the room. There she found the crown that was hidden inside a glass case.“But why the snow?” Belle questioned, seeing the masked man’s parchment paper turn slightly wet as the snowdrop
The stuffiness that she felt made her tongue tied. Belle fiddled with her hands while the masked man’s gestures turn flustered as he couldn’t comfort nor take back the words he had wrote. He knew the only reason why Leon had brought Belle here was because they had fallen in love for each other. To Leon his castle was similar to his heart. Only a few people could be let to enter his castle and not even his brothers were let invited.And that explain everything of Belle’s presence in the castle.Worried, the masked man wrote quickly, “But lady, that is what happened in the past. By past I mean, hundred of years ago. Lord Leon now looks back at it as simply a past memory.”Maybe, thought Belle silently. But it could be true that Leon’s love stays for centuries that he couldn’t forget his past lover. Belle quickly shook her head, reminding herself that this was only her thoughts and nothing has been confirmed. She needed to talk with Leon and made sure the fact before falling into the r
Belle was shocked seeing how Helios pulled out his sword, ready to cut down the servant who had used his life as a shield to protect her. Not wanting him to get attacked, she closed her eyes, wrecking her mind to remember the magic spells she had seen from the books she read. She then remembered one magic and squeezed out a whisper that was difficult for her to say, “A Le’el.”Helios was unprepared for the bright light that suddenly appeared from the woman whom he thought was a human. He didn’t have enough time to close his eyes and grunt as he suffered from a bright light that stab his red eyes sharply. Although he couldn’t see, Helios turn angered. The woman whose face he didn’t see well had harmed him. “You’re a witch,” he said, and Belle could hear bell tolling in the back of her mind. She could feel more rage radiating off his words after finding out she’s a witch.Just before Helios would attack Belle, Leon appeared in front of him. His hand quickly placed itself on his elde
Leon looked at her face, noticing the pain that hurt his heart. He quickly shook his head, holding both her hand gently as a way to reassure her.“No. I do not have a lover,” he responded firmly. “In the past there was indeed someone who I fall in love for. But it was only an attraction.”“But the masked man told me,” she whispered. “It’s a doll,” Leon answered to her. “They don’t know feelings or emotions but perhaps to their mind they associate friendship as lover.”Belle trusted him and nodded but she wondered how the doll didn’t have feelings or emotions as she saw it by her eyes how the doll would risk itself to protect her.“And who is that person?” She carefully questioned, “The one who you fell for.”Feeling Leon’s red eyes studying her, she quickly waved her hand, “It’s not what you’re thinking. I know that it’s been a long time and I’m not asking because I want to put you to the corner. I was just curious.”“I know,” Leon chuckled. He rested his head on the head rest which